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n. - A branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it.

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  • Muddy floodwaters rise and spread over deltaic wetlands from main and so-called distributary channels, transporting mass and energy laterally across the delta, in...
  • Claudius prevented too great an ascendency in Italy of this second stranger and supplied a distributary to the current of popular superstition.
  • The Sanctuary is in the basin of the brackish Djoudj bayou (distributary or marigot) between the main river channel to the north and the Gorom bayou to the south.
  • Or, as Mellaart had suggested, did they move across a distributary of the Çarsamba River to the West Mound, a smaller Chalcolithic settlement with lots of painted pottery?
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